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Before I formally threw my hat into the 8th Congressional District race, an old friend from my labor organizing days sent some words of advice. I had to look in the mirror each morning, she wrote, and remember who I am and the experiences that have shaped...
...stabbed to death in a shower. For some, the thought of Gen X stars Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche replaying those parts seems like heresy. Not for Van Sant. "[Psycho] is perfect to refashion as a modern piece," he insists. "Reflections are a major theme in the original, with mirrors everywhere, characters who reflect each other. This version holds up a mirror to that film; it's sort of its schizophrenic twin...
...most poignant of all confrontations with truth is confession. Yet in his nationally televised confrontation with truth, Clinton revealed a notion of truth as endlessly self-reflecting as a fun-house mirror. It has the vertiginous feel of Epimenides' paradox, which (in one version) reads, "All Cretans are liars. I am a Cretan. Therefore I am a liar." (But, of course, if I am a liar, I'm lying about being a liar, and thus I'm not.) The lies-feeding-lies circularity is deeply disturbing. You feel you can never climb...
...claim on me is exclusive and has been in evidence since the age of 14 months, when she raced across a room yelling, "My mommy!" then tried to shove a child off my lap. I've met hundreds of adopted children; not one has needed a court or a mirror to figure out who his or her parents...
...amendment to the Constitution is the root of the problem, then change it. After all, how many people drive an automobile by looking in the rearview mirror instead of at what lies ahead? With all that America has taught the world, perhaps it can still learn too. DOUG MCLEOD Victoria...